{"id":429921,"date":"2026-05-03T08:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T08:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/429921\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T08:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T08:37:09","slug":"you-guys-love-throwing-the-boot-into-us-when-things-dont-go-well-whatever-sells-leo-cullen-slams-media-coverage-of-leinster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/429921\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018You guys love throwing the boot into us when things don\u2019t go well, whatever sells\u2019 \u2013 Leo Cullen slams media coverage of Leinster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Head coach launches broadside after his side booked Champions Cup final place at expense of Toulon\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Leinster head coach Leo Cullen and captain Caelan Doris after the Champions Cup semi-final win over Toulon at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin. Photo: Seb Daly\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/145fea72-7484-4715-bb7a-2715b69f5a22.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Leinster head coach Leo Cullen and captain Caelan Doris after the Champions Cup semi-final win over Toulon at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin. Photo: Seb Daly\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Leinster head coach Leo Cullen slammed what he perceives to be unfair media coverage of his team following their dramatic 29-25 Champions Cup semi-final win over Toulon at the Aviva Stadium. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">An angry Cullen was clearly irked, as he believes that people are lining up to \u2018kick the boot in\u2019 on Leinster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Head coach launches broadside after his side booked Champions Cup final place at expense of Toulon Leinster head&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[13503,61,60,11287,28577,112],"class_list":["post-429921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cian-tracey","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-leinster-rugby","tag-leo-cullen","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}